Barfield gets hit but North wins Texas League All-Star game

Published 7:19 pm, Thursday, June 28, 2012

RockHounds' Jeremy Barfield watches his shot back up the middle earlier this year at Citibank Ballpark. Photo by Tim Fischer/Midland Reporter-Telegram

RockHounds' Jeremy Barfield watches his shot back up the middle earlier this year at Citibank Ballpark. Photo by Tim Fischer/Midland Reporter-Telegram

Photo: Tim Fischer

Barfield gets hit but North wins Texas League All-Star game

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TULSA, Okla. -- The North All-Stars used a three-run fourth inning and then two-hit the South All-Stars for a 3-1 victory in the Texas League All-Star Game played Thursday at ONEOK Field.

Springfield's Oscar Taveras led the North offense by going 3-for-4 with a double and a two-run home run.

Midland RockHound Jeremy Barfield, who started in right field, had one of the two hits for the South with a single in the fifth inning.

Tulsa's Nick Schmidt got the victory for the North by pitching a perfect fourth.

Coty Woods, also from Tulsa, got the save by pitching a perfect ninth.

North got three of its six hits in the fourth, beginning with Springfield's Kolten Wong, who led off with a single against Ross Seaton, of Corpus Christi.

Tulsa's Nolan Arenado then hit a ground-rule double to score Wong. Taveras then followed with his homer to right field to give the North a 3-0 advantage.

The only run the South got came in the sixth when Frisco's Engel Beltre tripled to right field and then scored on a sacrifice fly to center field by San Antonio's Dean Anna.

All six RockHounds who were in attendance got into the game.

Shane Peterson, who has missed time with an ankle injury, was the designated hitter and was 0-for-2. Anthony Aliotti was 0-for-1, while Conner Crumbliss walked but then got thrown out while trying to steal second base.

On the mound, Murphy Smith allowed a walk in the third inning in his only inning of work, while Jonathan Ortiz was perfect in his 2/3 inning of work in the seventh.

The Texas League resumes play today as the RockHounds head to Arkansas to begin a three-game series with the Travelers.